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Assume the Best: Trust-Based Strategies for Empowering College Students

Faculty Focus

Such policies demonstrate compassion and respect for the complexities of students’ lives (Nilson, 2016; Hammond, 2015). Teaching with Technology: Empower and Encourage, Don’t Police and Instill Fear Technology tools like plagiarism detectors and AI checkers can erode trust if used as punitive measures. Hammond, Z.

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Business and Health Professions Lead Faculty Growth as Humanities Decline, CUPA-HR Report Finds

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Meanwhile, several disciplines saw faculty numbers decline over the 20-year period, including Engineering Technology, English Language/Literature, Liberal Arts and Humanities, Consumer Sciences, and Education. The highest-paid disciplines have remained relatively consistent over the two decades studied.

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Level 7 Apprenticeships: Babies and Bathwater

HEPI

After all, they might argue, businesses dont exist to do the governments job of workforce planning or social engineering. One such document in 2015 laid out the Cameron Governments reform of English apprenticeships which heralded the introduction of the Apprenticeship Levy in 2017.

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UNCF's Career Pathways Initiative and HBCUv Platform are Driving Transformational Change Through Innovation and Alliances

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The United Negro College Funds (UNCF) Institute for Capacity Building (ICB) is leveraging the power of networks, technology and innovation to help Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Predominantly Black Institutions (PBIs) achieve their missions. In 2015, UNCF received a $50 million grant from the Lilly Endowment Inc.

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Bridging the Skills Divide: Higher Education’s Role in Delivering the UK’s Plan for Change

HEPI

Higher education has always played a critical role in skills development, from professional fields like Medicine, Dentistry, and Engineering to more recent models such as degree apprenticeships. The introduction of Degree Apprenticeships in 2015 was a landmark shift towards integrating academic learning with industry needs.

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Small College America – Profile Earlham College

Edu Alliance Journal

The college also offers a 3+2 Engineering Program , where students spend three years at Earlham before transferring to an affiliated university, such as Columbia or Case Western Reserve, to complete an engineering degree. Margaret Hamilton (1958) NASA software engineer, led Apollo Program flight software development.

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Coursera Coach: Providing Essential Learner Support

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2015) can all deter women or those with less formal education experience to continue in their learning. Creative approaches to technology-enhanced learning for the workplace and higher education. Two brief interventions to mitigate a chilly climate transform womens experience, relationships, and achievement in engineering.